I've already applied and gotten into law school, but am now having an existential career crisis. I'm a college senior, and have never worked full-time before except in internships. My choice is basically going to HS (which I've already been admitted to) or possibly Y, or accept a job paying $100k per year, plus a substantial signing bonus and non-trivial stock options, to work 40 hours per week in the Bay Area at "a social network".

Benefits of the former: prestige, possibly higher long-term income, suit-wearingness (I like suits).Downsides: soul-crushingness, possibly terrible job prospects, large up-front costs since I don't anticipate financial aid. But my education would pretty much be paid for through intergenerational transfers. Also, I might not enjoy the work.

Benefits of the latter: a really, really enjoyable lifestyle (I interned there over the summer; free food, free stuff, sweet offices, work from home if you want to).Downsides: Unclear future prospects. I would be an engineer, and it seems like engineers often have pretty stagnant career paths. Also, I don't really enjoy the work (sitting in front of a computer all day implementing algorithms)

I know that both of these are pretty attractive prospects and I'm lucky to be where I am. I don't mean this as a dick-ish flame, I'm just wondering whether people might have been in similar situations and what they did.

If you can't stand being an engineer, I doubt law is going to be uber exciting.

However, even if you were 100% sure you wanted to go to law, you should do the facebook job for several years. Save money, get an amazing resume. You'll be golden at that point. And after all that time you may find you want to stay in programming.

dextermorgan wrote:Dude, take the job, wait for the bottom to fall out, then go to HYS, have a killer story for OCI, profit.

Much better than being half a mil in the whole with a 160k job.

Hell, take the job, then go to Stanford and rake in the dough working for tech companies for the rest of your life.

Are you stupid?

This is a little rough.

But yes take the job, you would be stupid not to. You can still go to HS in 3-4 years, no way they accept you now, but wont with 3-4 years of significant work experience. Plus facebook provides an awsome job.

Plus you can save enough to go to law school and not have to take any debt. Man I wish i was in your shoes.

Defer the school's offer and take the job. If you haven't straightened things out by the time the deferral period ends do what you can to defer again. This gives you at least two and perhaps three years to figure things out.

A position requiring zero experience which nets you 100k, a "substantial" signing bonus, work from home, 40 hr/wk, free food, and stock options? But you are considering law because you like wearing suits?

concurrent fork wrote:A position requiring zero experience which nets you 100k, a "substantial" signing bonus, work from home, 40 hr/wk, free food, and stock options? But you are considering law because you like wearing suits?

I've already applied and gotten into law school, but am now having an existential career crisis. I'm a college senior, and have never worked full-time before except in internships. My choice is basically going to HS (which I've already been admitted to) or possibly Y, or accept a job paying $100k per year, plus a substantial signing bonus and non-trivial stock options, to work 40 hours per week in the Bay Area at "a social network".

Benefits of the former: prestige, possibly higher long-term income, suit-wearingness (I like suits).Downsides: soul-crushingness, possibly terrible job prospects, large up-front costs since I don't anticipate financial aid. But my education would pretty much be paid for through intergenerational transfers. Also, I might not enjoy the work.

Benefits of the latter: a really, really enjoyable lifestyle (I interned there over the summer; free food, free stuff, sweet offices, work from home if you want to).Downsides: Unclear future prospects. I would be an engineer, and it seems like engineers often have pretty stagnant career paths. Also, I don't really enjoy the work (sitting in front of a computer all day implementing algorithms)

I know that both of these are pretty attractive prospects and I'm lucky to be where I am. I don't mean this as a dick-ish flame, I'm just wondering whether people might have been in similar situations and what they did.

Thanks in advance.

You seem too unintelligent to analyze issues properly in law school. Let me help you:

Issue 1: Do I want to be a lawyer?

Issue 2: If yes, do I want to be a lawyer badly enough to work much harder than I would in this job for what, after debt payments, will likely be a similar rate of pay.

If yes, go to law school.

If no, go put on your T-Shirt and take the hippy-dippy job.

You better hope you get admitted to Y so you don't have to deal with grades.

I've already applied and gotten into law school, but am now having an existential career crisis. I'm a college senior, and have never worked full-time before except in internships. My choice is basically going to HS (which I've already been admitted to) or possibly Y, or accept a job paying $100k per year, plus a substantial signing bonus and non-trivial stock options, to work 40 hours per week in the Bay Area at "a social network".

Benefits of the former: prestige, possibly higher long-term income, suit-wearingness (I like suits).Downsides: soul-crushingness, possibly terrible job prospects, large up-front costs since I don't anticipate financial aid. But my education would pretty much be paid for through intergenerational transfers. Also, I might not enjoy the work.

Benefits of the latter: a really, really enjoyable lifestyle (I interned there over the summer; free food, free stuff, sweet offices, work from home if you want to).Downsides: Unclear future prospects. I would be an engineer, and it seems like engineers often have pretty stagnant career paths. Also, I don't really enjoy the work (sitting in front of a computer all day implementing algorithms)

I know that both of these are pretty attractive prospects and I'm lucky to be where I am. I don't mean this as a dick-ish flame, I'm just wondering whether people might have been in similar situations and what they did.

Thanks in advance.

You seem too unintelligent to analyze issues properly in law school. Let me help you:

Issue 1: Do I want to be a lawyer?

Issue 2: If yes, do I want to be a lawyer badly enough to work much harder than I would in this job for what, after debt payments, will likely be a similar rate of pay.

If yes, go to law school.

If no, go put on your T-Shirt and take the hippy-dippy job.

You better hope you get admitted to Y so you don't have to deal with grades.

There is absolutely NO reason for you to choose law school right now over this job. Even if you work 2 years at fb and decide you still want to go to law school, you will not be behind the game at all. Rather, you will be ahead in terms of $$$ and work experience.

More and more people are spending a couple years working before ls anyhow, and this type of job will really help you long-term with legal job prospects.

There is literally zero downside to taking this job and at least giving it a try for a year or two.